Winter Birding

It's March.  It's cold  It's snowed/iced twice.  What is this?  I live in the South for a reason, and this isn't it.  So much of this weather has reminded us of our time in Germany about a year ago.  Minus the whole 'adventure' attitude.  This is home, and it is certainly not supposed to snow twice (almost three times).

If there is but one benefit to a prolonged winter, however, it is the bare branches that expose all of the wonderful birds that travel through, or live in, South Carolina.  On my minimal time off to spend at home, I was able to snap some of these winged beauties.  Enjoy, as I do.

Fosca looks on in anticipation for an opportunity to get closer. 

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Birds of Spring

River Fauna

A continuation of the previous post, and general exhilaration at seeing so many native woodpeckers.  Pictures are the Red Headed (above), and the Red Bellied (further down, and seriously mis-named).

A mother Turtle lays her eggs in our yard.

I'm not really sure what was going on here.  I just happened to have the camera aimed at the right moment.

Further evidence that animals do silly things when you have a camera pointed at them.

A Day in the Garden

 
 

I've been meaning to post these for awhile now.  They are the results of a Mother's Day visit in Jacksonville, FL.  I grew up there, but I forgot just how beautiful and lush it was at the height of Spring.  

1- A Red- Headed Woodpecker looks for food on an old oak tree

2- Macro shooting of the buds of a hydrangea bush

3- A Male Cardinal in the drive